{
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "id": "GHSA-q7vh-x7xx-x6hx",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:43:51Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T03:26:52Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-12595"
  ],
  "details": "The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash in QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal in libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc.",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12595"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/146"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ad527a64f93dca12f6aabab2ca99ae5eb352ab4b"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-20"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-08-27T15:29:00Z"
  }
}